Arena Heroes

We will be testing a new feature called Arena Heroes at 0:00 GMT Friday (8PM Thursday ET; 5PM PT in the US). This is a new feature that will attempt to make arena events "fair" by setting everyone up with the same artifacts, skills (trans everything your profession allows) items, and levels for the length of the arena battle. Come test it out with us and provide your feedback on what can be done to improve the system.

Feel free to ask questions and provide feedback here, in game, or by email (to me).

Comments

For those not tri-trans, it's a little hard to make an offensive system without being able to code and test it beforehand.

Perhaps we could have the ability to test -any- professions at any time in the arena with others, not just for this event but for the sake of seeing if you'd like a profession before switching to it. Circle professions only, of course.

How are arties chosen? Are you giving everyone different arties each event or the same arties each time?

Will they be misc arties or offensive arties too--like a priest might get a level 1 mace and knight might get level 1 axe, etc.?

For now it will be pretty much a wish list of every artifact you can use in the arena. You will not get class specific artifacts that do not work for your current class. So only priests will get the mace, only bards will get the harp, etc. You don't get PvE only artifacts or trade skill artifacts as I don't see what you'd use them for.

Here's an example of what Theo could expect for example:

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You are holding:
Misc:
A ravenous hound, 14 onyx vials, 45 emerald vials, a pipe filter set, a silver flintlock, a
Neelamic reservoir, a deep red boomerang, a whip of taming, a wand of reflection, a lunar shield, a
staff of illusion, a Horn of Terror, the Foreboding Stone, a crystehl whetstone, a Flask of Divine
Manna, a stylized antique telescope, a crystal-lensed magnifying glass, goggles of the unseen, the
Seer's Eye, a Dreadscythe Claymore, a Doomforge longsword, a Souledge Sabre, a gleaming scimitar, a
broadsword of Vahin, a Fleshrender battleaxe, the Zydramir Journals, a soot-blackened tinderbox, 3
obsidian and gold pipes.
You are wearing:
Misc:
A vialbelt of truesilver kegs, a Diadem of the Quickening, a steelweave surcoat, a suit of
quicksilver armour, Acrobatic Boots, a firescourge ring, a frostbrand ring, a poisonbane ring, a
eupnoeic ring, a voltaic ring, a phrenic ring, a platinum-weave pack, a Bow of Asaka, a pair of
Gauntlets of Avasyu, a Collar of Gazali, a Scorpion's Tail, a Torc of Malkav, a ring of Magick's
Bane, a Golden Lyre of Shallah, a pair of Bracelets of Epiphany's Grace, a ring of Epiphany's Gift,
a Quicksilver Amulet, a Veil of Obtenebrate, a golden band of Baar, an Illuminas ring, a pair of
stone rings, a silvery crest, a Girdle of Aesir, a Sash of Malkav, Ethereal Boots, an aqueous ring,
a ring of flying, wolverine's claws, a Band of the Fasting, a lamiran amulet, Darrinic Robes, an
Armband of Celerity, a Cloak of Obfuscate, an Anklet of Dashing, a Brooch of the Tempest, a mask of
lifevision, a silvery neck guard, a Monocle of Acuity, goggles of whitesight, a ring of Aryana's
Bounty, a sanctified aegis, a feathered armlet, a wrist-sheathed toolkit, a pentagram eye amulet,
plain grey trousers, a plain grey tunic, a pair of plated vambraces, a pair of plate greaves, a
plate helm, a dragonskin quiver.
You have 30 types of items in the storage.
You have 142 items and no gold.
You have no gold in items in your inventory.
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